166 PHANEROGAMIC FLORA OF. SPITZBERGEN. 
fasc. xv., n. 94, except that they have greener spikelets, and somewhat 
rougher panicle-branches than the Scandinavian. plants, but these cha- 
racters vary in the Spitzbergen specimens. 
This is as common, and has as wide a range as the two former 
species. It is found on the mountain sides up to the snow-line, and is 
eommon at Brandywine Bay. 
86. P. abbreviata, R. Br.; P. laga, Hanke, Hooker, according to 
specimens from Beechy Island, determined by Hooker, in Riks Mu- 
seum.—Treurenburg (Hecla Cove), and Low Isl., Parry; Lomme Bay 
and Cape Fanshave. Not yet found on the west coast. We cannot, 
with J. D. Hooker, refer this plant to P. laga, Hinke, for it has.a 
small spike-like panicle, and the leaves are rolled up, bent. backwards, 
en as thin as a thread, and never more than 5 inches long. 
87. P. Vahliana, Liebm. Fl. D. 2401,—Sparingly at Hinlopen 
Strait, Treurenburg Bay, and King's Bay. 
88. Glyceria angustata. (R. Br.), Mgr.; Poa angustata, R. Br. ; 
Atropis angustata, Rupr., Ledeb. Fl. Ross.—Rare, on the west coast, 
and at Hinlopen Strait. Cape Fanshave, 18th August; Lomme Bay 
23rd August. Like Poa Vahliana, it grows on gravel mixed with 
clay, which is soaked by the melting snows. 
89. Catabrosa Vilfoidea, Anders.—“ C. ceespitosa, rigidiuscula ; culmo 
subpollicari, adscendente, dichotome ramoso, basi dense foliato, glaber- 
rimo; vaginis subinflatis, trinerviis, glabris; ligula producta, truncata 
vel biloba; lamina convoluta, acuta ; panicula valde depauperata, ramis 
geminis insequalibus, vel ssepius solitariis, aut integris et spicula bi- 
flora solitaria terminatis, aut iterum divisis, spiculas tres vel duas ge- 
rentibus ; glumis inzequalibus, flosculis duplo brevioribus, acutiusculis, . 
subcompressis, interiori majori; paleis insequalibus, exteriori dorso recto, 
subenervia, apice oblique truncata; lodiculis aeutis, subintegris ; sta- 
minibus tribus; stigmatibus erectis, elongatis, Hab. in Spitzbergen, 
loco Augusti Bay dicto, a Doct. Malmgren 1861 lecta. 
90. Catabrosa algida, (Sol.), Fr., Anders. Bot. Not. 1849, with fig. ; 
Agrostis algida, Bol, Whg., Fl. L., p. 25, tab. i.; Vilfa algida, 
even up to the snow-line. Walden Isl., Parry, Seven Isl., Norden- 
skiol 
d. 
Superficially, this little Grass resembles the North American Vilfa 
